bfe_695712 - LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - HENRY II Teston
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Type : Teston
Date: c. 1610-1620
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Nancy
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Ce teston est frappé sur un flan large et irrégulier. Reliefs un peu plus nets au revers. Monnaie nettoyée présentant de petites taches au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : (CROIX DE LORRAINE) HENRI. D. G. DVX. LOTH. MARCH. D. C. B. G.
Obverse description : Buste cuirassé et drapé à droite de Henri II, avec un col plat.
Obverse translation : (Henri, par la grâce de Dieu, duc de Lorraine, marquis et duc de Calabre, Bar, Gueldre).
Reverse
Reverse legend : (CROIX DE LORRAINE) MONETA. NOVA. NANCEII. CVSA..
Reverse description : Écu couronné, au 1 : parti en a de Hongrie, en b de Naples ; au 2 : parti en a de Jérusalem, en b d'Aragon ; au 3 : en a d'Anjou, en b de Gueldre ; au 4 : en a de Flandre, en b de Bar ; sur le tout un petit écu de Lorraine ; l’écu est accosté de deux croix de Lorraine couronnées.
Reverse translation : (Monnaie nouvelle frappée à Nancy).
Historical background
LORRAINE - DUCHY OF LORRAINE - HENRY II
(05/14/1608-1624)
Henri was born in Nancy on November 8, 1563 from the union of Charles III and Claude of France. He succeeded his deceased father in Nancy on May 14, 1608. In 1599, he secretly married Catherine de Bourbon, the sister of King Henry IV of France, who was Protestant. Pope Clement VIII, having learned of this marriage, excommunicated Henri de Lorraine who however obtained in 1604 a pontifical pardon. Catherine de Bourbon died childless on February 13, 1604. On April 24, 1606, Henri I of Lorraine married his second wife Marguerite de Gonzague, daughter of Vincent I, Duke of Mantua, and Léonore de Médicis. Marguerite had only daughters before dying in 1632. Henri I of Lorraine appointed his daughter Nicole to succeed him; she married Charles (future Charles IV), the son of the Count of Vaudémont. Henri died in Nancy on July 31, 1624.
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